Awesome / Syphon Filter

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In the original Playstation 1 trilogy

• Using the taser in the original trilogy. No matter how many times you use it, frying enemies to flames never gets old.

• Lining up head shots on enemies repeatedly in especially tough situations where they may be all wearing flak jackets.

• Pressing the combat roll, managing to not get hit while doing it is very awesome and very cool.

• Gabe himself. He is basically a walking One-Man Army as he stops numerous villains from attaining their objectives, while alone in the field most of the time.

Syphon Filter 1

• At the end of the first level, Gabe realizes the bomb is about to go off, he is survives seemly unscathed from large explosion at such a close distance with the most of the subway destroyed.
• Chasing Mara Aramov through the subway system, all while dodging incoming gunfire and trains, making the third level of the first game incredibly intense.
• Fight the with Anton Girdeux certainly counts. Girdeux wearing body armor that makes your guns ineffective and armed with a One-Hit Kill flamethrower the moment the flames touches Gabe. Gabe improvises and hits his weak spot where the fuel for the flamethrower are.
  • When Gabe defeats him, he does an Unflinching Walk away from Girdeux as he bursts into flames and burns to death, while calming radioing in the CBDC to go ahead to defuse the bomb.
• Gabe doing the cinematic jump in the Pharcom expo center. He drops down what looks to be several stories into the main floor, as enemies come down on him.
• Completing the Rhoemer's Base mission in stealth. Gabe silently dispatches all the guards and the commander in charge without raising a single alarm.
  • Then Gabe trips the silent alarm coming into the next level.
• The helicopter battle in Rhoemer's Base Tower, dodging and destroying the helicopter as it flies in to attack and drop mooks down. Complete with one of the best tracks in the first game.
  • Comes with another cutscene where Gabe jumps several stories as the helicopter and tower explodes and he survives with seemly no injuries. He does this a lot.
• In the Pharcom warehouses, Gabe is caught between in an intense firefight between Rhoemer's men and Phagan's guards. One of the most memorable missions as the combat and action just doesn't stop.
• At the end of the first game, Gabe safely rolls to cover after Rhoemer launches the nuke, burning anyone within the launch silo. Then defuses the nuke by inputting the detonation code in a heavily armed and fortified base.

Syphon Filter 2

Syphon Filter 2 is filled with awesome moments with Gabe and Lian defying all odds.

• The incredibly corny, but still badass Gabe Logan intro from Syphon Filter 2, which makes him look more capable of doing certain things than he actually is.
• At the end of the first mission, Gabe does what he does best, dodging missiles by jumping off a mountain cliff and LIVES.
  • The premise of being outnumbered, outgunned and your allies dying left and right during this mission as enemy paratroopers come in by the dozens in the attempt to eliminate Gabe. He overcomes them all and manages to save a few CBDC allies.
• Lian while sick and unarmed manages to escape from an Airbase while not harming any of the neutral G.I.s that have nothing to do with the Agency^* Hand Taser only knocks them out . Manages to sabotage the fighters attempting to bomb Gabe and his men, kill one of the Agency's named villains and has enough strength to fly a helicopter to rescue Gabe.
• At the Colorado Bridge mission, Gabe takes out an entire convoy of enemies and stops them from blowing up the state highway by silently killing the commander and defusing all the bombs.
  • When Archer shows up to take care of blowing up the bridge himself, Gabe does his jump into a MOVING train below.
• The train missions are this. Gabe killing mooks left and right, jumping down from a helicopter all while jumping between train segments as he attempts to stop the train from crashing into a destroyed bridge.
  • Goes with one of the best tracks that resonates with the high adrenaline this mission gives off.
• Gabe landing at the crash site to recover the data discs. He goes up alone against Archer's elite men and Archer himself in the inferno of the crash site in one of the most tense missions in the first disc. He then snipes Archer with a headshot while he is several hundred meters above in a moving helicopter. It is also the first time the boss theme plays, which is very fittingly named.
  • You can tell Archer's men are spooked once they see Gabe parachuting down, they immediately ask for reinforcements.
  • Bonus points if the player completes this mission on HARD mode. All enemies will do an instant death headshot if not eliminated quickly.
  • Another point if player manages to snipe Archer with a SINGLE shot in hard mode^* Manual aim isn't centered in hard mode. , which unlocks a collectible.
• In the start of the second disk, Gabe dons his very cool Ninja suit as his stealth outfit as he returns to the Pharcom expo center to stop Morgan from getting the backup data discs Phagan had made copies of. He even starts with a crossbow!
• The fight with Jason Chance at the end of 2, ending with Jason getting shot with an USAS-12 into the tail rotors of a parked Apache helicopter, which counts as an awesome Cruel and Unusual Death for him "killing" Teresa.

Syphon Filter 3

While Syphon Filter 3 suffers from being underwhelming compared to the first and second game, due to Sony wanting another game for PS1^* Sony wanted another Syphon Filter made for the Playstation versus Playstation 2 due to a large userbase The game still has awesome moments with the more varied cast.

• Gabe infiltrating S.S. Lorelei, killing the captain and setting the ship to blow in the sea.
• Gabe's past mission in cold war-era Afghanistan when he was still working as a US Army Ranger soldier. Losing his convoy on a landmine sans for Benton and Ellis, Gabe managed to successfully finish the mission against all odds. Double as Nightmare Fuel thanks to the eerie atmosphere of the mission.
• Mara after realizing Hadden's cover was blown, blows him and his guards away with a spray of submachine fire, with our protagonists barely has enough time to duck to cover. She even does it single-handed.